Show MAKE ALL PAY TAXES oj 1 In an editorial ro discussing the custom cus- cus tom torn of exempting municipally own own- own own-cd I 01 1 utilities from from taxation the San SanI I Francisco Chronicle sa says s 's that even cn if all the public utilities were muni muni- municipally municipally municipally owned the unequal distribution distribution distribution tion of taxes would remain It would be even more unequal The Theother Theother Theother other sources of State revenue re would have to pay the huge sums of tax i money escaped by the utilities No Noone Noone I Ione one can dodge his share All the state taxes tues are paid by the ultimate consumer This exemption of municipally owned utilities l leads ads to other evils t It provides one of the means b by which publicly owned utilities hide mis mis- mismanagement mismanagement mismanagement II management and excessive costs I Ontario H Hydropower is just now to toI I the force as a I striking e example ample The people people of Ontario have learned that I Ithe the low power rates they used to brag about have been kept low by higher taxes They are faced now with the I prospect of raising their power rates or raising their taxes some more j I By the full mount amount amount of the taxes I their publicly owned utilities do not i and which have to be made up plY pay by the people in in their own taxes the the k from knowing public is kept pt true state stale of the utilities eConomically and The only fair sound method is to tax publicly own own- owned own own-ed ed utilities on the same basis as every similar property |